Elsie Palmer Payne (1884 – 1971) was an American painter known for her landscape and genre painting. From Wikipedi
Payne was born in San Antonio, Texas on September 9, 1884.[1] She attended Best Art School in San Francisco. In 1912 she married fellow artist Edgar Alwin Payne, with whom she had one child, Evelyn, born in 1914.[2][3] The couple resided in Chicago for several years and, at that time, Payne assisted her husband in creating several murals. The couple relocated to California in 1918. They both were founding members of the Laguna Beach Art Association.[1]